When you HAVE to stay...

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On fotografii Natalia Vodianova, the most famous model, right next to his sister. Sister's name is Oksana, she's 27 years old and she is disabled, autistic. During a walk with a nanny she sat down at a table on the summer terrace in a cafe to drink tea. However, their scandal out. The owner did not like the look of the girl... He thought that a sick man repels visitors. Guests are immediately offered to leave the institution.

Not knowing what to do in such a situation, the nurse called the girl's mother. She stood up for her daughter, and as a result received threats. The guards threatened to "lock you in the basement" and "call the asylum". But in the end did and called the police.

Mother the whole day went by office, wrote an explanatory. A scandal, as a result, more and resulted in the media. Here, of course, for Oksana stood up sister – the one Natalia Vodianova is known not only for a modeling career, but also charity. She is President of the Foundation "Naked heart", helps children with special needs.

Natalia shared her vision of the situation in society. The case of the sister is far from unique. Moreover, this attitude towards the disabled in society is already the norm – in fact the police have not gone to the cafe owner for discrimination, and the mother and daughter with a disability.

"The problem is that such situations happen every day with people like my sister. And this must be addressed!"Natalia shared with the media.

Her mother with pain told that discrimination Oksana began from childhood. For example, the neighbors drove her off the bench in the yard. "Get out of here, sitting here, healthy children!»

Natalia got in touch with the press. All the scandal was gaining momentum. Facebook buzzed like an enraged beehive. And the people were divided into right and left, black and white, and fiercely argued among themselves.

Some said – what kind of savagery. In Europe, this is even impossible to imagine. There are people with disabilities live a full life. There attitude to children with special needs is no different from the relationship to a healthy one. Wheelchair users there can work, meet friends in cafe, to live a full life. We have the same they often can't even equip ramps. Why?

And others... I don't even know what to call these people.

One girl wrote a review that really made me cry. Because it's the bottom.

She wrote that in 2012 went on holiday to Simferopol. A whole year of saving up, I wanted to relax. And there are supposedly flocks were people with disabilities. She was forced to look at their deformities, and endure their ugly, sick appearance. It irritated the scars and swelling. And she asked – what the hell made me watch this.

You think this savagery? Unfortunately, she's not alone. In life, not on paper, they are the majority. Given example.

When my Rita was very young, we played in the sandbox in the yard. Everything was perfect, the kids had fun. We were about to leave.

And suddenly there came a mother with a special child.
I do not remember now what was wrong with him. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

It is important that parents, as if on cue, stood up, and took their children. And Playground pointedly empty. Remained only the mother and child, and we.

Rita asked me: "Mom, we were going to leave. And now we're all alone. Why don't we leave?»

And I said, "Honey, because now we HAVE to stay."
She understood everything then.

And then, when there appeared someone special, she could always find a common language with him.

You know, purely from the point of view of profit, I can understand the logic of the owner of this cafe.

But from the point of view of morality, this is exactly the case when it was NECESSARY to stay. To show that you're human.

Meanie just miscalculated. Wanted to expel embarrassing the eyes of a disabled girl, and ran into Vodianova. And if not to run?

What would you say to that person at the meeting? Give the hand?   published   

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